It's announced just now that Daigo Umehara will compete in the Tokyo qualifying tournament of 2nd official Gunslinger Stratos national tournament on August 4. Umehara and Nyanshi (and 2 others) will play under team TOPANGA.

The tournament was announced since last year. This qualifying tournament is in Tokyo and the real tournament will be held in Osaka on August 31.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

TOPANGA has updated the entry list of The 3rd TOPANGA Charity Cup today and it is revealed that Justin Wong, Ricky Ortiz, PR Rog, Momochi, ChocoBlanka will participate in the tournament under Evil Genius team.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Nagisa has agreed that she will host GODSGARDEN's Kao TV every Monday.

The agreement came after she said that she wanted to stream her gaming session during "Mada Hashiritai!" show on Tuesday in which she was a guest. KSK, who was co-hosting the show, then offered her the opportunity. (Mada Hashiritai! is a new pay-per-view talk show hosted by KSK, R (Guy player), Sentosu. Every Tuesday on Niconico.)

Nagisa is a show personality, a model, an MC, a fortuneteller, and a cosplayer. She used to co-host "Game no Jikan" with Kayo Police which ended last year. She started fighting games one year ago around P4U launch.

It's unclear whether she'll show her face on Kao TV or not. It's unlikely that her agency will allow for free.

TOPANGA Charity Cup is the biggest community-organized fighting game tournament in Japan. Players of any level are encouraged to participate since the entry fee will go to charity. A team with less than 5 members is also allowed.

Monday, June 17, 2013

Notes
- This talk show was the last stop of the Battle Tour 2013.
- The MC is Negi, the former TOPANGA Fight Club member.
- Battle Tour 2013 has raised 514,581 yen for charity.
- The talk show and the guests was Umehara's idea.
- This's the first time Kazunoko looked into Umehara's eyes!
- Umehara met Bon-chan since age 18.
- Umehara got to know Fuudo during the World Game Cup 2010 trip. He said Fuudo's too talkative at the time.
- On question what do you want to change in the system in new version of SSF4AE? Umehara wanted them to fix unblockable vortex. For example, controlling wakeup timing. Three other agreed with it.
- Kazunoko wanted Yun's Ultra 2 to be more powerful.
- When talking about non-fighting game, Umehara said he likes to play the games that he's not good.
- Umehara had several characters to level 99 in Dragon Quest V. Umehara was so into it and even argued with Bon-chan about which spell is better than another.
- Umehara played Carnage Heart (PS1).
- Someone asked about their child naming. Bon-chan like the word "Ryo (cool breeze)." Kazunoko likes the word "Atsu" (hot/enthusiasm) so Atsuo for boy and Atsuko for girl. Fuudo likes "Kei" in his name and manga "Hana no Keiji" so he chose "Keiji." Umehara was willing to use names from Showa era that people don't name their kids anymore.
- The last question was "How is Umehara's Ryu different from other Ryu?" But Umehara proposed that they talk about how is each of them different from others.
- Kazunoko thought that Fuudo's yomi is the best in Japan.
- Famitsu has an event report here.
- More than 150 attendants.

These are bonus videos from Battle Tour 2013 for people who donated to this charity campaign. It's now available for everyone.

First episode: Umehara vs. non-FG.
- They were at Taito Station Mizonoguchi branch.
- The game center challenged him in various games. Loser had to drink bitter tea. (If Umehara wins then shop manager has to drink it).
- First game, they had to pick up one item in 5 tries.
- In second game, they had to punch harder than average people of that day (157.255 kilogram). But the rule counted overall result (3 members divided by 3).
- He had to play a game he didn't know against a female shop staff.
- He played SSF4AE2012 against Bon-chan (Sagat) and Oshino (Adon). (Oshino is one of their friends) Umehara and Bon-chan commentated the gameplay.

Second episode: Dice a topic.
- They're in karaoke room at Clap Clap Mizonoguchi.
- If he's not a gamer: Umehara wanted to be a scientist.
- 3 guys had to pick 1 of 3 sushi, 1 of them had wasabi in it.
- Talking about interesting thing recently: Umehara enjoyed massage.
- Type of girl: Cheerful. Has a mouth like Haruka Igawa (big, looks good when smile).
- They had to guess 5 most popular dishes of the shop. But they had to eat all of what they chose. Umehara chose Double Yakisoba. The 2nd round will continue next episode.

Third episode
- In the 2nd round, Umehara chose Teriyaki Pizza because it should be popular for young people.
- In the 3rd round, Umehara chose Niku Chazuke, but this menu had additional punishment so they had to drink spicy tea.

Fourth episode
- Umehara said if they fail the 5th round then it's over because they couldn't eat anymore.
- Umehara, Bon-chan, and Oshino will compete each other in a series of challenges.
- They went to batting center. The challenge is hitting the 150km ball, controlling the ball, pitching fast ball.
- Then they played various arcade games.

Fifth episode
- You'll never see Umehara laugh so much like in this episode!
- First game is squeezing water from towel.
- Second game is guessing Mahjong tile.
- Third game is old maid.
- Fourth game is trying to get your drink to (or closest to) designated weight. The type of drinks is the multiplier. Cola is x2. Bitter tea is x3. Pepper tea is x10. Umehara got cola. Bon got bitter tea. Oshino got pepper tea.
- Bon came out last and had a chance to avoid drinking pepper tea (as punishment) if he can squeeze water from the towel.
- Oshino performed ending song.

It is revealed that Daigo Umehara will speak at a seminar for enterprise management organized by Tohmatsu Innovation on June 6.

Tohmatsu Innovation is a part of Tohmatsu Group or Deloitte. The group provides advices for management, stock, and finances through its consulting firm. For such business, it is one of the four largest in the world.

Street Fighter IV producer Tomoaki Ayano has revealed today via the official blog (Japanese/English) that Ibuki's Okizeme (wake-up game) is a hot topic in the balance requests. He said they'll look into Okizeme in all characters not just Ibuki.

This's a very good news hearing that a lot of people brought this issue up (Ibuki's Okizeme) and Capcom acknowledged it.

People tend to overlook an issue if the character isn't popular.

1. When a character isn't popular, people don't see its potential.
2. Then that character became "low tier."
3. When a player picks it up and shows its potential later, people tend to think it's fine even if it's broken. Because that character is "low tier."